Your guide to NYC's public proceedings.
PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public
2:45:32
ยท
124 sec
Christopher Leon Johnson testifies about his concerns regarding the mandated bins for waste containerization in NYC. He agrees with Intro 57 but questions the requirement to buy specific bins from certain vendors and the potential negative impact on Business Improvement Districts (BIDs).
- Johnson suggests allowing people to buy any bin they want, as long as it's effective
- He argues that mandating specific bins could unfairly penalize those who use better alternatives
- Johnson proposes giving BIDs money for community sanitation services instead of requiring bin purchases
- He expresses doubt about the effectiveness of bins without locks in high-congestion areas
Christopher Leon Johnson
2:45:32
My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
2:45:33
Thank you, chair 1, chair Brady, for hosting this hearing.
2:45:36
I wanna give my congratulations to the new NYPD commissioner, Jessica Chish, who was the former just like recently former commissioner of sanitation.
2:45:45
I know she'll do a great job as commissioner, especially with her inventions of the, mandated bins that we will have to use now, in the buildings.
2:45:55
So I wanna make this clear that, I agree with intro 57 with the bins, but the problem is is that, the it should be where anybody could buy any bin they want.
2:46:07
I wonder why you had to buy a certain bin from a certain vendor to be in compliance.
2:46:13
What happen if you can't you don't wanna buy those bins and you wanna buy a better bin that could do way a way better job than the bins that the city has, has made everybody buy?
2:46:23
Will you be out of compliance with that?
2:46:25
Because that's now that's the bad area is where you buy a better bin and you put it outside and now easy to d s n y can easy and easy find you money for having the wrong bend, even as a better bend.
2:46:39
So let's keep this a 100%.
2:46:41
These B, these BIDs are correct about this.
2:46:44
Right.
2:46:44
Is going to hurt them.
2:46:45
Is the small BID is gonna hurt the small b I BIDs?
2:46:49
And the city, instead of them just buying instead of just making people buy bins, why don't you just give these BIDs the money to, implement services like, community sanitation services and community cleanups more?
2:47:01
They said this may can be buy bins.
2:47:02
Bins is not gonna solve anything at all.
2:47:04
It's not gonna solve it because the population is too big.
2:47:08
It's a big population and everybody is going you walk out what is it?
2:47:12
8 o'clock at nighttime and people still out in the high congested areas in the CBD areas on the 60th Street, and they see the bins, they go open up and put trash inside there, and it's gonna fill up.
2:47:22
So it's not gonna do anything at all.
2:47:26
Unless you mandate locks, mandate locks on the bins when you dispose them, it's not gonna do a thing.
2:47:33
You let it out on the open?
Shaun Abreu
2:47:35
Thank you.
2:47:35
That's all
Lonnie Portis
2:47:35
I gotta say.
Christopher Leon Johnson
2:47:35
But thank you.
Shaun Abreu
2:47:36
Thank you.
← Previous Chapter
Testimony by Maddie Baker, Operations Manager of Bryant Park Corporation and 34th Street Partnership Business Improvement Districts (BIDs)
Next Chapter →
Testimony by Mary Arnold, Representative of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Bronx Solid Waste Advisory Boards (SWABs) on Organic Waste Collection and Processing